>The 1 as compared to the other 4 of 5 is the comparison "in America". The idea that 1 in 5 (20%) is bad is in comparison to what?

A duck! No wait, it is still not about other countries. 1 on 5 of *us* is not something *we* should be feel good about among *ourselves*. It's not about what our neighbors think. However, there is a cheap way available any time you wanna feel better, yeah, head out to Zimbabwe and flaunt it -- if you're a schadenfreude kinda guy. But... speaking of schadenfreude... maybe avoid Germany, for example, because you'd just feel bad all over again.


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>>Yeah, now I see your logic. So if...
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>>>The explicit argument was that 1 in 5 are poor in America.
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>>And that...
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>>>The implicit argument is that this is a bad statistic.
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>>That's because the answer to...
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>>>Compared to what?
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>>Is to each other "in America".
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>>You deduce that it...
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>>>Seems a reasonable assumption that the comparison is to other countries in the world.
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>Regardless how funny Monty Python may be, they're irrelevant to the discussion.